Christian Frisson,Communications and Remote Sensing Lab (TELE), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belguim
Loïc Reboursière, Laboratoire de Théorie des Circuits et Traitement du Signal (TCTS), Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) Belgium
"This project aims at studying how recent interactive and interaction
technologies would help extend how we play the guitar,
thus defining the “multimodal guitar”. Two sub-projects, 1) “A
gestural/polyphonic sensing/processing toolbox to augment guitar
performances”, and 2) “An interactive guitar score following environment
for adaptive learning”, share quite similar technological
challenges (sensing, analysis, processing, synthesis and interaction
methods) and dissemination intentions (community-based,
supporting multiple user profiles, low-cost, open-source), while
leading to different applications (respectively artistic and educational)."
The interesting project described is planned to start in a few months so it was hard for me to judge where it would go. I shared my concern
with Christian and Loic that their goals were to ambitious for the time available. I did suggest as many shortcuts as I could think of including
Miller Puckettes new pitch detector for PD, Sigmund, available also now for Max/MSP) and the stringport USB interface for guitars.
